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hello sir my name is sunil playin 4 me school team in india n im an opening batsman jus tot if u cud help me wit my stance...cos i hav problem in my timing so feel its bcos of my stance...will u help me pls???can u giv ur email id so i can add u n show my stance thro webcam pls????Harrowdrive said:Nothing beats a coach I'm afraid, or at least playing in the nets.
Otherwise mirror batting helps you groove your muscle memory but it's not going to make you into the next Bradman.
Harrowdrive said:Nothing beats a coach I'm afraid, or at least playing in the nets.
Re: Batting Drills
Someone told me one once, you start with a tennis ball and a cricket stump but use the stump as your bat (or one of those practice middle bat things that're really thin) and either get someone to throw the tennis ball at you (not too fast) or throw it against a wall and practice connecting with it well with the stump - the idea is when you pick up a bat again you find it much easier to hit the middle. I haven't tried it but i guess it can't do much harm. If you're regularly hitting the tennis ball well move onto something like a golf ball.
I'm doing this more these days and it seems to be helping, I'm still batting at 10 or 11, ten more often these days, but a couple of weeks ago at our clubs pre-season nets the bowlers couldn't get me out and it took them ages to find a way. But the Bradman technique of hitting the ball against the wall and keeping it going does seem to transfer to what you do in a game, does anyone else do this and do you reckon it helps?
I spent hours every day when I was a kid hurling a golf ball against a brick wall and trying to play it with a small bat. I imagined i was Atherton fending off Donald and Pollock and kept going til I got to 100. Got hit in the face plenty of times when the ball flew up off a loose bit of tarmac.
Can you imagine a kid doing that nowadays?
Batting is quite simple really, too many years of coaches overcomplicating things have made it sound like a mystery. Get your head into line and bring the bat down straight. The rest is just window dressing.
I liken it to keepy-up. How many times can you play a straight ball straight back into the V without missing it, nicking it or hitting it in the air? 10? 50? 100? indefinitely?
Nice one SLA! I'm on it, can't see me ever getting to the point where I'd be able to do it with a golf and besides the walls I've got to do it against are limited and have uneven paving slabs beneath them, but I'll keep at it with other balls though. Good enough for you and Bradman... Good enough for me!
Does your club do bowling machine nets? We always do them between November and Christmas, it gives you the chance to forget about scoring runs and just work on the technique of one shot at a time. Failing that, get someone who knows a bit about batting to give you some throwdowns.
No gawd bless yer! No, the nearest thing I get to that would be watching some of the better batsmen training my son and then me asking them questions on his behalf as such. I think such privileges are only reserved for the first and second XI's, a forth team player such as I would nevr get such an opportunity or it would be exceptionally rare. On the odd ocassion one of the better blokes my have a word with you briefly, if he was umpiring and had been watching me batting, but, certainly nothing as formal as you've suggested.